Question: How does Don Vito Corleone know that a meeting was going to be setup for Michael's assassination?
Captain Defenestrator
13th Dec 2012
The Godfather (1972)
Answer: Because at the end of the olive oil war in 1934, Vito used the exact same plan to execute his falling enemy Mariposa, and the traitor in Mariposa's family was his capo Emilio Barzini, and Vito figured out that Barzini will use the same plan to get rid of Michael, an unexperienced boss of a falling family (as known to Barzini).
Answer: The five Mafia heads have periodic meetings to discuss various issues. The Corleones are the most powerful of the New York Five Families. With Don Corleone now retired, the other Dons would appear to want to discuss Michael's new role. Michael is perceived as an inexperienced and weak successor, making him an easy target at a closed meeting. Vito knows this and that if Michael were assassinated, the Corleone empire would fall apart and their territory taken over.
Chosen answer: Because that's how he would organize a hit like that.
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Answer: Being a Don for such a long time, Vito has probably seen most every dirty trick used by the other families.